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Thomas Jefferson Education ! ! Thanks for downloading this free sample from our book! You can get reader reviews, complete chapter outline, product description and purchase options (digital, audio, paperback or hardcover) by clicking on the images below. Or you can see our complete list of products at http://tjed.org/purchase/. ! ! A Thomas Jefferson Education TEACHING A GENERATION OF LEADERS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Oliver DeMille Note: This volume is a philosophical overview, and not a step-by-step guide for implementation of the Leadership Education model. For additional help on application, see Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning and the other titles in the Leadership Education Library. The Leadership Education Library Volume 1: A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century Volume 2: Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning Volume 3: A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion Volume 4: Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens Volume 5: The Student Whisperer: Inspiring Genius Volume 6: 19 Apps: Leadership Education for College Students To download an index of the contents of this book, visit TJEd.org/TJEd-Index. TJEd.org / OliverDeMille.com Copyright © 2012 by Oliver DeMille. All rights reserved. No part of this pub- lication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or oth- erwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. International rights and foreign translations available only through permission of the publisher. First paperback edition published in 2000. First hardback edition, revised, published in 2006. Second paperback edition 2009. Third paperback edition 2012. Inquiries regarding requests to reprint all or part of this book, or distribution or publishing questions, should be addressed to [email protected]. Thanks to Julie Earl, Michele Smith, Brad Bolon, Janine Bolon, Rachel DeMille, Tiffany Earl, Shanon Brooks, Tressa Roberts, Andrew Groft, Nels Jensen and Daniel Earley for editorial suggestions. Thanks to Shawn Ercanbrack for sec- tions of chapter ten and the epilogue. The author is responsible for the con- tents of this book. Printed in the United States of America. Cover and book design by Daniel Ruesch Design | danielruesch.net ICBN 978-0-9830996-6-6 LCCN 2012907883 A Thomas Jefferson Education “TJEd” is a philosophy and a methodology by which great individuals throughout history were educated. Thousands of families and professional educators are applying those same principles today, with astounding success. This new paperback edition includes: ! The 7 Keys of Great Teaching ! The 4 Phases of Learning ! The 5 Environments of Mentoring ! Tips for professional educators ! How to apply Thomas Jefferson Education in a homeschool ! Teaching the classics of math, science, history, the arts, etc. ! Thomas Jefferson Education in college and careers “As a high school teacher and administrator, I have yearned for a different approach to learning; and Oliver DeMille shows us how education should really take place—with classics and mentors, where students must dig it out for themselves with a little guidance. It may take a whole generation to throw off the bad habits, but let’s get started.” —EARL TAYLOR, PRINCIPAL HERITAGE ACADEMY, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL “I felt like I was reading the Common Sense of the Twenty-first Century, the book that will shape the minds of the leaders.” —TIFFANY EARL, HOMESCHOOLING MOTHER, FOUNDER OF LEADERSHIP EDUCATION METHODS INSTITUTE “Oliver DeMille has analyzed history and brilliantly given us, as Abraham Lincoln said, ‘just that knowledge of past men and events which [we] need’ in our lives and schools.” —VICKI JO ANDERSON, FORMER PRESIDENT ARIZONA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Contents ONE Two Towers . .1 TWO Education Today . .11 THREE Three Systems of Schooling . .19 FOUR Mentoring . .37 FIVE Classics . .57 SIX Great Teaching . .69 SEVEN Thomas Jefferson Education in the Public Schools . .97 EIGHT Thomas Jefferson Education at College . .107 NINE Leadership Careers . .115 TEN Statesmanship: Making a Difference in Society . .127 EPILOGUE A New Golden Age? . .137 APPENDICES A 100 Classics . .143 B Classics for Children and Youth . .146 C Sample Discussion Questions . .151 D Where to Find the Classics . .165 E Recommended Readings . .167 F Putting Thomas Jefferson Education to Work . .169 Notes . .192 CHAPTER ONE Two Towers “Lay down true principles, and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender…” — Thomas Jefferson “ liver, turn on the radio, now!” There was an urgency I’d seldom heard in Dr. Brooks’ O voice, and he hung up without saying anything else. So I hurried to the radio and switched it on. Frankly, I am not a morn- ing person and had failed to answer his three earlier phone calls. But on the fourth set of long rings, I finally picked it up. We did- n’t have a television in our home—part of a typical summer rou- tine for our family, meant to get us all to study, talk and build rela- tionships instead of waste our family time in front of the set. The radio told of an event that would change the world, and I imme- diately called Dr. Brooks back and told him to contact the student body and call a campus-wide meeting. It was the morning of September 11, 2001. There is a longing that perhaps we all feel in the beginning decades of the Twenty-first Century. Maybe human beings have always felt it, but something unique seems to be growing and spreading in our world today. Mediocrity, which became the norm and in some circles even the goal between 1968 and 2001, seemed to lose its hold on that tragic morning when the whole TWO TOWERS 1 world tuned in to watch the Twin Towers fall—over and over and over. Since “9/11,” we now live in a different world. It remains to be seen what the Twenty-first Century holds in store, but we learned a few things on that morning that are valu- able lessons for the future. First, every generation faces its chal- lenges. The modern feeling of invincibility and the view that peace and prosperity are the natural state of things has been brought into question. Most of us are much more painfully aware of just how fragile our enjoyable lifestyle really is. Even the return to normalcy in the years since 9/11 only masks the new sense of vulnerability Americans now feel. The looks on the faces of my students as I walked into the main classroom told me what a shock this really was. The ques- tions were emotional and basic: “How long will it last?” “What can we expect in the days and even years ahead?” “What will this mean to the future of our nation?” “Are all my plans and dreams for the future gone forever?” and “What should I be doing to help?” These young people felt something new that day, something you don’t ever forget. Virtually all who experienced those feelings that morning are deeply changed. They know it could happen again, on any day at any given moment—and they live with that. Moreover, somewhere inside many people actually expect it. The youth of 9/11 are no longer living in a world of Comedy, where we all feel an underlying security that everything will turn out well. We lived through one of those junctures in history when a world of Comedy shifts to Tragedy, and with this on our minds, day after day, week after week, through each holiday season and with every new year, our souls steel with each passing month and our subconscious emotions prepare us for what is ahead. I believe we all feel it on some level—even those who deny it. Preparing for Leadership “What can I possibly say to these young people?” I wondered, wishing my father were present. He had served in Vietnam, and 2 A THOMAS JEFFERSON EDUCATION seemed to have come home with an ability to face any crisis— evenly and calmly giving brief words of wisdom that soothed and protected. My own experience hadn’t prepared me for this. When the Gulf War began in 1991 I watched in technicolor in a univer- sity auditorium and discussed the evils of war with my college classmates. By 2001, the ten years since that event felt like an eternity. In fact, it was an irony that most of the George Wythe College students were supposed to discuss the book Alas Babylon that morning. This modern classic, set during the Cold War, opens on a morning when a nuclear war changes the face of the land and the people who survive. Clearly, reading the book was- n’t anything like the reality of terrorists flying planes into build- ings right now—in the real world. I looked into the faces of the students, and wondered what to say. Fortunately, before I opened my mouth Dr. Einar Erickson stood. He probably saw me in the same light as the students: young, shell-shocked, and scared. If so, he was right. Dr. Erickson, who had lived through Pearl Harbor, told of that time over fifty years before. By the time he finished, two things had occurred. First, I think everyone in the room was moved to tears. And second, we were calmed and anchored. Things would work out, there were a lot of decisions ahead for our generation, and there was much work to be done. As students and faculty, we could either ignore these events and escape into campus life, or we could take this head on, realize that great things are going to be asked of our generation, and set out to prepare ourselves to help fill the lead- ership drought around the world.
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